Marisa Berenson Quotes

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.

I've gotten to the point where I've gotten comfortable with my awkwardness.

It took a long time, and a lot of years, for me to get comfortable with myself, like the way I am now.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

I can live with myself.

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

I've just grown as a person, accepting my flaws as well. Before I was very insecure and I used to just hide, and now I just accept that I'm an imperfect human.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I'm a lot more grounded now, a lot more settled in my skin.

When you mature, you also get more secure about yourself. You see things differently.

I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for?

I've grown as an actor. I am more confident within my art form. I have also grown as a person. I am more compassionate, generous, and less judgmental.

I stopped worrying about how other people define me a little bit ago. I used to care a lot. Now I just don't care that much. Really, what I'm worried about is, am I being the best me I can be?

People worry about their looks going, but go deeper, and you realise you know yourself more and you're more comfortable in your own skin and more settled within yourself, and that's a really great basis on which to live your life.

I'm not as hard on myself anymore. I'm comfortable exactly where I am, though it took me until I was 34 years old! I still have things I'm really insecure about, but I've changed by loving me - C-section scars, stretch marks, and all.

It's good to be comfortable with who you are and what you do.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.